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...debate over Iraq's future and the U.S. military presence there will only accelerate in anticipation of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. On Wednesday, the President will make the second in his latest cycle of speeches addressing the war on terror, White House shorthand for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defense at home...
Fortinet, which is shorthand for Fortify the Internet, proved so popular with network administrators that to date, the company has shipped more than 100,000 FortiGate appliances, ranging in price from $500 for units designed for personal use to $300,000 for devices meant for large enterprises. With that kind of sales record, Xie plans to take the company public soon...
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Beaver has become shorthand for 1950s naiveté. But as you can see over 39 episodes (TV seasons, like airline legroom, were more generous then), its picture of child-hood could be tart as well as sweet. When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is worried that his teacher will hit him over a minor mess-up, Wally (Tony Dow) corrects him: "Only the coach can hit you." Beaver was never edgy, but it packed its own good-natured punch...
...plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...last major Palestinian city under complete Israeli occupation, a status that was originally supposed to end last March, if only the two sides could agree on the terms for self-rule. Last week, just when it looked as if they might, the name Hebron reclaimed its place as shorthand for bloodlust and mayhem...